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Tnihieliy calLes tee “Reovron Fact*on,” Weatherman rete ar ty eo eG ee Va Toe June, 1969 Students for a Destoraric orl | (S05) Ratie al Convention (NC). At this NC Weatacrman wo. all thiee natleval officer positions and a majority ot th: Natioral interim Committee as well. Subsequenti,) tray *o0k over tne $3 National Office (NO) in Chicage, ant ron eyo lard ito funds, capor and national records. Althousn arcne? struigic esisved until late i969, Weatherman for all major pursoses contsolled SDS nationally from June, 1969, antil its VO closed in Ferrvary, 1970. At this time it no longer consid: rod itseir part sf SDS. The tera “ectbermet energed from an ideological paper prepared by its leaiers, entitled, “You Pon.'t Need a Weatherman to Know Whicn Way the “ind Bicws," ("New Left Notes," June 18, 1969). This sStaterent ouclinec the Dasic stance of Weatherman: Marxist-Leninist i.. concent but wits strong advocacy that action not theory would trine about revolution in the Uni tad States, saw ee VAs As NE tw 7 et NF Sa Ne Sef ie . . Se ee ee Sea ew Ss This posture was cogupécmeated with ai international identification to the Cuban revolution ant CASY20's stevement that the duty of a revolutionary (s «o nake revolution. ; 19693, Wiathermaa riots in Chicago resulted in more taen 260 astre -3 fer mob action and related charges. A program of aged strvagle was finalized during a December, 156%, “Nar ‘suncil" wherein terrocist tactics and political assassinaciou were contumplated. The basic strength of Weatherman was then revealed cco Le sone 300-350 nationally and geographically apporticn.ed to the Midwest, New York, and some Northwest. During Bewcwis, An its vphets 2c oe cricdunesu 2¢calated, Weatherman leaders increasingly oo scurKed oo vecessity of an underground operation whirein choce 2} coomt 2f the organization would re fubmer ey, 7 Tr . voons.? Of three - Five members WOR Lure woe Pease . cmuary, i970, Weatherman léagers ansow ced A J .2tegiua sanotege” with police and military jtns*cla- ~couy targets. In Pebcuary, ig°" Weathecwan abandoned the SDS NO, 1608 West “Madise. Sbroct, . ule, Illinois, and throughout the country entered aa un. sgvound statug. CONEINEs Pmwee wn _ 16